[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Businesses slow to move to Fort Monroe" (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Businesses slow to move to Fort Monroe

By Robert Brauchle
Newport News Daily Press (VA)
August 25, 2014

HAMPTON - Across the street from Fort Monroe's iconic beaches are a  
row of brick-facade buildings. Some teem with activity while others  
sit vacant.

A slow drip of business activity is beginning to repopulate Fort  
Monroe as the decommissioned Army post transitions into a civilian  
community. Two businesses have agreed to open offices on the property  
in the past month.

While Fort Monroe Authority officials have found success finding  
tenants for the 176 homes and apartments on the property - more than  
95 percent of the units are full - the line of tenants willing to  
rent office and warehouse space is much shorter.

The Fort Monroe Authority lists 22 businesses and organizations on  
the property, but those entities include the Chamberlin, two  
churches, a Boy Scout troop and the contractor hired to maintain the  
property.

...

For the entire article, see
http://articles.dailypress.com/2014-08-25/news/dp-nws-fort-monroe- 
rental-space-20140826_1_fort-monroe-authority-oder-property

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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